Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:36:40 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? Message-ID: <980627183640.ZM27871@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> "Re: Does it's true?" (Jun 27, 9:51am) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980627093956.501A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Jun 27, 9:51am, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Subject: Re: Does it's true? > On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > >where it is considered OK to murder people. (If you, the reader, say > >to yourself that you don't consider it OK, then you'd better be > >actively opposing the use of death penalty - otherwise you've just > >turned your logic off in what you say to yourself) > > This statement presumes that execution is murder. Execution is a lawful > punishment in the United States. > > Not everything that causes death is murder. Not even everything that > causes a wrongful death is murder. In the United States we divvy out > justice based on "mens rea" or criminal intent. A cold blooded killer is > guilty of a capital offense whereas a negligent causer of death is guilty > of a less than capital offensel. > > The people of the United States reserve the lawful right to punish the > capital offender by death. Until the people change this law, execution > will not be murder. > > It is never OK to murder people. No one in the US will say it is. Of > course, as you can see by my discussion, which act consitutes a murder is > subject to debate. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > | 206-633-5994 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message >-- End of excerpt from Jason C. Wells Your right Jason, it is all in the deffinitions isn't it. Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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